Ariane Sherine

Five Go Back to Blyton

24 September 2016 9:00 am

Six years ago, the publishers Hachette took the well-meaning yet preposterous step of making ‘sensitive text revisions’ to Enid Blyton’s…

Whiter than Wight

22 September 2016 1:00 pm

A young, professional and fundamentally mismatched couple, we had been dating for almost a year when I called things to…

One long moanfest

17 September 2016 9:00 am

Tama Janowitz’s memoir is a relentlessly cheerless and bitter collection of vignettes. Between tales of her purportedly miserly, creepy and…

Marriage for one

27 August 2016 9:00 am

As far as the bride was concerned, the wedding was perfect. Her dress was beautiful, the vows were traditional and…

What a shower

30 July 2016 9:00 am

The fact that we get sun when we expect hail and hail when we expect sun provides those of us…

Left bereft

2 July 2016 9:00 am

Dear Jeremy, Please don’t go. I know you’re even more unpopular than the England football team right now — your…